Forsite Development has announced that FCR Recycling has joined the proposed ReVenture Park project in Charlotte, N.C., to help the developer design and operate a $30 million dollar “Recycled Fuel” facility. The goal of the park is to improve Mecklenburg County’s recycling rates and transform lower value recoverable materials into a fuel that can be used to create electricity.
According to a Forsite release, the recycled fuel will be used to power a proposed 30-megawatt renewable energy biomass power plant to be developed at the 667-acre “Eco Industrial” Park.
The facility will be designed to process materials through a system that maximizes the recovery of recyclables and eliminate materials that can cause air pollution during energy conversion, such as PVC, electronics and batteries. The system will be designed to “optimize the physical and chemical characteristics of the fuel with FCR’s engineered fuel technologies” while densifying it into a renewable fuel, according to the companies.
“The utilization of recycled fuel as our feedstock is the single greatest difference between our project and a conventional Waste-to-Energy plant that burns raw garbage,” says Tom McKittrick, Forsite’s president. “We interviewed firms across the country and found FCR Recycling to be by far the industry’s leading expert for transforming garbage into a renewable engineered fuel suitable for creating clean electricity.”
The project is slated to be operational by April of 2012 and is expected to divert about 340,000 tons of solid waste per year.
“ReVenture is the most innovative and sustainable large-scale project that I have seen in my 25 years in the recycling business,” says Sean Duffy, vice president of FCR Recycling. “We have spent the last five years perfecting our design for recycled fuel, and we are thrilled to have been selected as Forsite’s waste processing partner. With this project, Charlotte will solidify its leadership position in sustainable practices among major municipalities. Ultimately, we hope this project will show other cities there are significantly better ways to manage waste over simply burying garbage in a landfill.”
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